estant will paint the catholic's as boorish, drunken, and disgraceful, while a catholic would refer to a protestant as oppressive, and pompus. This problem is compounded by the fact the purely empirical data is lacking, and by using the amount that does exist, the result will predominantly illustrate consequences, and not the causes of the struggle that has lasted almost 400 years.
             The methodological approach to this study is therefore predominantly based on a historical-comparative approach. This approach differs from both a positivistic and interpretive one, and is based primarily one case study's and qualitative data. The research is an intensive examination of a limited number of cases in which social meaning and context are critical. The research focuses on culture, and tries to see events through the eyes of those being studied, reconstructs the lives of the people studied, and examines particular groups. The benefit to this approach is that it uses many details to lead to a fuller understanding of the topic. There is a focus on the subjective feelings of people, and that everyday, ordinary activities signify important social meaning. A negative aspect of the historical comparative approach is that like most historical studies, the quality of the evidence will always be questioned since it has had to survive for so long. The researcher is limited to what has not been destroyed, and to what leaves a trace, record, or other evidence behind. There is also the problem of interpreting the evidence. Since every person enters the project with views, and experiences that will shape that interpretation, it is difficult, and maybe impossible to reconstruct the past in a thurally unbiased manner. There is also the problem of trying to shape the past, when one already has knowledge of the future. This means that researchers are more likely to conclude that thing happened in a certain way because of the way things are now...